The commissioner spoke on Monday afternoon to kick off the four-day event.
College football season is quickly approaching and the unofficial mark of the new season is each conference's annual Media Days.
In February, I began my fourth year as commissioner and it's hard to argue that there has been a time in college athletics that has seen more change than what's currently transpiring in our industry. As a leader in college sports, the ACC is well positioned to positively affect and embrace future change.
The ongoing emphasis in college athletics surrounding revenue generation and financial prioritization has never been greater. As a conference, we have been and will continue to be aggressively evaluating all areas that potentially enhance our conference financials for both the immediate and long-term future of the ACC. As has been reported, our board of directors formerly adopted an innovative and progressive new revenue distribution model to begin this year.
This is a monumental summer for the ACC which kicked off with the July 1 celebration as the ACC became an 18-member conference. This past weekend, we held our third annual ACC Unity Tour. It was an honor to once again be part of this important initiative which was held in Charleston, S.C. We will remain committed to prioritizing diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives as they are important to our past, present, and future.
Two of the three active coaches in the country to win a national title reside here in the ACC, Mack Brown and Dabo Swinney, and the combination of our proven veteran coaches, combined with our dynamic young coaches is incredibly powerful. The ACC is the conference of quarterbacks. 13 enter the season with over 20 career touchdown passes and 3,500 career passing yards. Eight quarterbacks are projected to start week one in the 2024 NFL season, 25-percent of NFL teams.
JIM PHILLIPS: Good to see you Andrea.
JIM PHILLIPS: Appreciate it David, good to see you. I'm not going to go into internal conversations that we've had with the board but I wouldn't be doing my job if we aren't exploring every area that's available so I know that it gets out there and sometimes folks wanted to get out there, etc.
JIM PHILLIPS: A couple of things. One is this, I just talk about student versus employee and a couple reasons why I I don't believe that's necessary, I'm against it. Taxation. I don't think parents and families want to be taxed on scholarship, room and board, book, tuition, travel, equipment, health, medical, all of those benefits right.
JIM PHILLIPS: Nothing’s for free. That's probably the most important piece of this thing and yes, influx of cash allow you to do some things but do schools want to do that individually, do they want to do that collectively, do they not want to do it at all, again I think it's just the times that we're in that you're looking at lots of different options and trying to make sure that you're vetting them at the right level to make really good educated decisions.
JIM PHILLIPS: It’s good to see you Josh. I just want to say this, Josh is a really big Baltimore Orioles fan and he was like crushing me with a text about he's going to see the Cubs play Chicago Cubs play at Camden Yards in Baltimore. Cubs aren't having a great season, the Orioles are certainly having a great season, and then I haven't heard from him till this morning. I thought he was in the witness protection program.
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